Florida & Spring Quarter!
It may not be spring yet, but it sure is beginning to feel like it! Spring quarter has been fairly warm so far. This is good news, because I ended up spending 4 days in Florida over spring break. The 70 degree weather was amazing!
It's already the last quarter of the 2009-2010 year. As I'm sure I mentioned before, winter quarter was tough. However, I did well in my classes and the week break was refreshing. I only have 10 hours of class this spring (compared to having 20 in the winter), but one of my classes is "blended" (half online) and one is completely online. I don't have as many 8am classes as I thought, but I'm working 24 hours at three different locations on campus. Talk about busy!
Yes, three part-time jobs. I recently was hired by one of my friends on Student Government to work as a content manager for their web site, serve on the elections committee, and do some captioning for their videos on SGTV. We'll see how it goes--I have so many projects this spring that I definitely will have my time occupied.
Running club is back in action, after we kind of fell apart in the winter. There are a handful of us doing a 5 mile St. Patrick's Day race in downtown Rochester on Saturday, and then I'm volunteering for the RIT Indoor Triathlon on Sunday. If you remember from last year, I actually competed in the triathlon. This year, however, I'm not going to put myself through the torture.
In addition to the running club events this weekend, it is also the beginning of playoff season. RIT hockey is ranked #1 in our conference. Hopefully this year we make it to the NCAA playoffs for the first time ever! Nationally, we are ranked #21--we still have not made it into the top 20! I'm definitely looking forward to the next couple of weekends in college hockey.
As far as housing goes, the spot that I was trying for at University Commons fell through, but a group of us are trying to get in somewhere on campus. I'm glad that we finally got our housing contracts for next year figured out--although we waited until almost the last minute, we'll hopefully be finding out our housing assignments next Friday. If we don't get in to where we want on campus, then the four of us that grouped together will be going somewhere off campus (although still close by).
Anyway, the highlight of the past month has definitely been the trip to Florida over spring break. We left last Saturday morning at 4am--I was praying that our flight to JFK would not be delayed as we had received over a foot of snow the day before! It was quite hectic attempting to drive to the airport, and we had to shovel our way into a parking spot.
Saturday was spent in Boca Raton, FL. It was probably the worst day of the trip, simply because it rained and there was not a whole lot that we could do. I enjoyed going to dinner at the Chinese buffet! Sunday was amazing, as everybody went to the nature park and saw several hundred birds and a couple of alligators out in the wild. There were some pretty interesting ducks. We visited the beach in the afternoon and even managed to watch part of the Olympics, also.
On Monday, the three of us that went on the trip went to Orlando, FL via Amtrak. It was my first Amtrak experience. The resort that we stayed at was absolutely amazing, and our villa had it's own kitchen (w/ dishwasher, refrigerator, washer/dryer, etc), living room, master bedroom, and a bathroom. There were 2 HDTV's. I was highly impressed. We ate dinner at the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. I wish we could have had more time in Orlando, because we didn't have much time to enjoy the resort--although we did go swimming later that night.
Tuesday was my first time ever at Disney World (first time in Florida, actually). We visited all of the parks except the water parks and Animal Kingdom. There were hardly lines--we waited on average 5 to 10 minutes to get on each ride. I was so relieved because there was a chance of rain the entire day, and it did not rain at all. We got to see an Indiana Jones Stunt Show, and saw the IllumiNATIONS fireworks display when the parks closed for the night.
So, all in all, I've been having a great couple of weeks, as always seems to be the case. The next couple of months should prove to be just as amazing, and soon enough I'll be back home working full-time for the summer!
Let's hope the warm weather is here to stay...
It's already the last quarter of the 2009-2010 year. As I'm sure I mentioned before, winter quarter was tough. However, I did well in my classes and the week break was refreshing. I only have 10 hours of class this spring (compared to having 20 in the winter), but one of my classes is "blended" (half online) and one is completely online. I don't have as many 8am classes as I thought, but I'm working 24 hours at three different locations on campus. Talk about busy!
Yes, three part-time jobs. I recently was hired by one of my friends on Student Government to work as a content manager for their web site, serve on the elections committee, and do some captioning for their videos on SGTV. We'll see how it goes--I have so many projects this spring that I definitely will have my time occupied.
Running club is back in action, after we kind of fell apart in the winter. There are a handful of us doing a 5 mile St. Patrick's Day race in downtown Rochester on Saturday, and then I'm volunteering for the RIT Indoor Triathlon on Sunday. If you remember from last year, I actually competed in the triathlon. This year, however, I'm not going to put myself through the torture.
In addition to the running club events this weekend, it is also the beginning of playoff season. RIT hockey is ranked #1 in our conference. Hopefully this year we make it to the NCAA playoffs for the first time ever! Nationally, we are ranked #21--we still have not made it into the top 20! I'm definitely looking forward to the next couple of weekends in college hockey.
As far as housing goes, the spot that I was trying for at University Commons fell through, but a group of us are trying to get in somewhere on campus. I'm glad that we finally got our housing contracts for next year figured out--although we waited until almost the last minute, we'll hopefully be finding out our housing assignments next Friday. If we don't get in to where we want on campus, then the four of us that grouped together will be going somewhere off campus (although still close by).
Anyway, the highlight of the past month has definitely been the trip to Florida over spring break. We left last Saturday morning at 4am--I was praying that our flight to JFK would not be delayed as we had received over a foot of snow the day before! It was quite hectic attempting to drive to the airport, and we had to shovel our way into a parking spot.
Saturday was spent in Boca Raton, FL. It was probably the worst day of the trip, simply because it rained and there was not a whole lot that we could do. I enjoyed going to dinner at the Chinese buffet! Sunday was amazing, as everybody went to the nature park and saw several hundred birds and a couple of alligators out in the wild. There were some pretty interesting ducks. We visited the beach in the afternoon and even managed to watch part of the Olympics, also.
On Monday, the three of us that went on the trip went to Orlando, FL via Amtrak. It was my first Amtrak experience. The resort that we stayed at was absolutely amazing, and our villa had it's own kitchen (w/ dishwasher, refrigerator, washer/dryer, etc), living room, master bedroom, and a bathroom. There were 2 HDTV's. I was highly impressed. We ate dinner at the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. I wish we could have had more time in Orlando, because we didn't have much time to enjoy the resort--although we did go swimming later that night.
Tuesday was my first time ever at Disney World (first time in Florida, actually). We visited all of the parks except the water parks and Animal Kingdom. There were hardly lines--we waited on average 5 to 10 minutes to get on each ride. I was so relieved because there was a chance of rain the entire day, and it did not rain at all. We got to see an Indiana Jones Stunt Show, and saw the IllumiNATIONS fireworks display when the parks closed for the night.
So, all in all, I've been having a great couple of weeks, as always seems to be the case. The next couple of months should prove to be just as amazing, and soon enough I'll be back home working full-time for the summer!
Let's hope the warm weather is here to stay...
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